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Sasser Returns From China
To Push MFN Trade Status

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Eduardo Lachica Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 29, 1996 4:02 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Ambassador to China James Sasser is back here to perform a critical task.

The former senator from Tennessee has to convince his former colleagues that China's most-favored-nation trading status and, indeed, the overall relationship with China, are worth saving. "It's no coincidence that I'm coming back at a time when the MFN issue is starting to [re-emerge] in Congress," he told an audience of prominent...